The Utah State Capitol with Salt Lake City International airport, the Great Salt Lake and Stansbury Island from a position on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City. The distance from the Capitol to the island is somewhere around 35 miles as the crows flies and available only on the rare clear day.

Full moon sets over Utah State Capitol

Tainted yellow by air pollution over Salt Lake City

FedEx MD-11 on approach to SLC airport

The Salt Lake CIty and County building, a FedEx MD-11 aircraft and the Kennecott smelter smokestack are stacked up with an ultra telephoto lens on a relatively clear day. #Kennecott #FedEx #SaltLakeCity #RioTinto

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An aircraft approaches the Salt Lake City airport with the backdrop of the Kennecott Rio Tinto mine smelter and the Salt Lake City City and County building tower in the foreground during a yellow air alert in January 2017.

Utah state Capitol building Kennecott smelter tower

The Utah state Capitol Building and the Kennecott smelter smokestack are compressed into one scene though they are 24 miles apart with a super telephoto lens. #UtahStateCapitol #Kennecott #smelter #smokestack #ThinkAboutIt